-managing parts of construction projects
-overseeing building work
-undertaking surveys
-setting out sites and organizing facilities
-checking technical designs and drawings to ensure that they are followed correctly
-supervising contracted staff
-ensuring projects meet agreed specifications, budgets or timescales
-liaising with clients, subcontractors and other professional staff, especially quantity
surveyors and the overall project manager
-providing technical advice and solving problems on site
-preparing site reports and filling in other paperwork
-liaising with quantity surveyors about the ordering and negotiating the price of materials
-ensuring that health and safety and sustainability policies and legislation are adhered to